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All you need to do is pip install plotly and then import plotly.plotly as py

Emailing Plotly Graphs

In the Plotly Webapp you can share your graphs over email to your colleagues who are also Plotly members. If your making graphs periodically or automatically, e.g. in Python with a cron job, it can be helpful to also share the graphs that you're creating in an email to your team.

This notebook is a primer on sending nice HTML emails with Plotly graphs in Python. We use:

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from plotly.offline import iplot, init_notebook_mode
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iplot([{'x': [1, 2, 3], 'y': [3, 1, 5]}])
Drawing...

Updating graphs

If we use the same filename, the graph will save to the same URL. So, if we include a graph in an email by it's URL, we can update that graph by calling py.plot with the same filename.

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for i in range(100):
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